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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; extensive writing. Prerequisite: course 1 or English 3, or equivalent. Texts and writing practices in the production of scientific knowledge. Surveys the literary structure of scientific arguments; history of scientific genres; rhetoric and semiotics in scientific culture; graphical systems in the experimental laboratory; narratives of science, including science fiction. (Same course as English 164.) GE Credit: Wrt.-I. Milburn
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; extensive writing. Built environments, which are designed to support forms of life. Their role as carriers of cultural memory and in turning knowledge of nature into social assets. Historical constellations of knowledge, social order, and power. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: Soc- Sci, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; extensive writing. Prerequisite: course 3 or Science and Technology Studies 1, or equivalent. The literary modes and methods of science fiction. Representative texts, authors, and themes of the genre-e.g., time travel, alternative universes, and utopias. Relations of science fiction to science, philosophy, and culture. (Same course as English 173.) GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-4 hours. Prerequisite: upper division standing or consent of instructor. Hands-on training in STS fieldwork, interviewing, archival research and data analysis. Review of laboratory studies literature, informed consent procedures, ethics, and care of the data. Individual and group projects possible.-III. (III.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; term paper or discussion-1 hour.Prerequisite: upper division standing preferred. Social, cultural, and historical dimensions of knowledge, especially scientific knowledge. Problems, methods, and theory in sociology of scientific knowledge. Laboratory and historical case studies. Scientific and technical knowledge in institutional and organizational contexts. (Same course as Sociology 176.)-Carroll
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4.00 Credits
Seminar-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course in History and Philosophy of Science or other coursework relevant to topic. In depth treatment of selected topics in the history and philosophy of science. Possible topics include history of modern physics, history of molecular biology, science and society, science and power, scientific explanation, technology and culture, theory testing. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: open to junior and senior Science and Technology Studies majors only. Intensive reading, discussion, research and writing by small groups in selected topics of science, technology, and medicine studies scholarship. Emphasis on individual research projects.
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
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1.00 - 5.00 Credits
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
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4.00 Credits
Lecture/discussion-3 hours; extensive writing. Prerequisite: course 1 recommended. Methodological issues concerning the historical, philosophical, sociological, ethical, and political analysis of science, technology, and medicine. Detailed case studies to illustrate different methods of analysis. GE credit: SciEng or SocSci, Wrt.-Carroll
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